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View of the Dunes with the Ruins of Brederode Castle near Santpoort
Also titled Duingezicht met de ruïne van kasteel Brederode bij Santpoort
Andreas Schelfhout (The Hague, 1787–1870)
1844
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 10 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
The 17th-century landscapist Jacob van Ruisdael enjoyed painting views of Haarlem from the dunes. Schelfhout was inspired by Ruisdael’s work for this panorama of the dunes near Haarlem, with the ruins of Brederode Castle in the foreground. Not only did he paint in a 17th-century manner, this subject matter, the countryside around Haarlem, was also considered in the Romantic era to be ultra-Dutch and ‘historical’.
